Since Mark put up a long post last night, you may not have seen this important one about the blog being broken. Basically, we’ve crashed under the impact of a horrendously vicious spam attack, and for the last three days, there have been constant outages due to database errors. We haven’t been able to get into the admin of the blog ourselves more often than not. To cut a long story short, because too many database connections are open at any given point in time because of the spammers attempting to post comments, we’ve temporarily disabled comments in the hope that will improve the site so that we can write on it and you can read it. Rob Corr will be doing a major upgrade and a move to a new host on the weekend, when we might disappear entirely for a spell. This will involve some expense, so if you’ve got any money left over after the Melbourne Cup not devoted to higher interest rates, you may care to consider making a donation via the PayPal button! We’ll love you forever if you do! (And if you don’t for that matter…)
Really sorry about all this – with any luck everything will be all smoochy again next week, so please bear with us – we’re as frustrated as you are. Bloody election campaigns bringing all this traffic to us! Pffft, say I!
Most regulars are probably already aware by now, but in case you weren’t: while we are waiting for our server woes to end, we have set up a back-up blog, Larvatus Prodeo in exile, where we will be crossposting and where LarvyProdders can comment to their heart’s content!
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